Quantum Philosophy Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science
In this magisterial work, Roland Omnès takes us from the academies of ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern science as he seeks to do no less than rebuild the foundations of the philosophy of knowledge. One of the world's leading quantum physicists, Omnès reviews the history and recent d...
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Princeton, N.J
Princeton University Press
2002
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| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9780691095516, 0691095515, 9780691027876, 0691027870, 9781400822867, 1400822866 |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Prelude [PART ONE Introduction] CHAPTER I: Classical Logic CHAPTER II: Classical Physics CHAPTER III: Classical Mathematics CHAPTER IV: Classical Philosophy of Knowledge [PART TWO Introduction] CHAPTER V: Formal Mathematics CHAPTER VI: The Philosophy of Mathematics CHAPTER VII: Formal Physics CHAPTER VIII: The Epistemology of Physics [PART THREE Introduction] CHAPTER IX: Between Logic and Physics CHAPTER X: Rediscovering Common Sense CHAPTER XI: From the Measurable to the Unmeasurable CHAPTER XII: On Realism CHAPTER XIII: A New Beginning CHAPTER XIV: What Is Science? CHAPTER XV: Method CHAPTER XVI: Vanishing Perspectives Glossary Name Index Subject Index
- Cover Title Page, Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments Prelude PART ONETHE LEGACY CHAPTER I CClassical Logic CHAPTER I I CClassical Physics CHAPTER I I I CClassical Mathematics CHAPTER IV CClassical Philosophy of Knowledge PART TWOTHE FRACTURE CHAPTER V CFormal Mathematics CHAPTER VI CThe Philosophy of Mathematics CHAPTER VI I CFormal Physics CHAPTER VI I I CThe Epistemology of Physics PART THRE EFROM FORMAL BACK TO VISUAL:THE QUANTUM CASEC CHAPTER IX CBetween Logic and Physics CHAPTER X CRediscovering Common Sense CHAPTER XI CFrom the Measurable to theUnmeasurable CHAPTER XI I COn Realism PART FOURSTATE OF THE QUESTIONAND PERSPECTIVES C CHAPTER XI I I CA New Beginning CHAPTER XIV CWhat Is Science? CHAPTER XV CMethod CHAPTER XV I CVanishing Perspectives Glossary Name Index C Subject Index
- The Outline of a Program -- The Logic of Common Sense -- Classical Dynamics and Determinism -- With the Help of an Angel -- Observables -- Rudiments of a Quantum Dialect -- Histories -- The Role of Probabilities -- The Logic of the Quantum World -- Complementarity -- A Logical Law of Physics -- CHAPTER X: Rediscovering Common Sense -- The World on a Large Scale -- The Logic of Common Sense -- Determinism -- A First Philosophical Survey -- CHAPTER XI: From the Measurable to the Unmeasurable -- The Poignant Problem of Interferences -- The Decoherence Effect -- The Wonders of Decoherence: Physical -- The Wonders of Decoherence: Logical -- Last Wonders: The Direction of Time -- Measurement Theory -- Wave Function Reduction Revisited -- The Chasm -- Addendum -- CHAPTER XII: On Realism -- A Brief History of Realism -- Quantum Physics and Realism -- Ordinary Reality -- Rationality versus Realism -- The "EPR" Experiment -- Bell and Aspect -- Controversies about Histories -- Toward a Wider Realism -- PART FOUR: STATE OF THE QUESTION AND PERSPECTIVES -- CHAPTER XIII: A New Beginning -- A Preliminary Report -- The Beginnings of a Philosophy -- The Religious Temptation and the Sacred -- CHAPTER XIV: What Is Science? -- Science as Representation -- On Certain Types of Laws -- The Transformations of Science -- Thomas Kuhn -- CHAPTER XV: Method -- A Method for Judging, Not for Building -- Which Method? -- A Four-Stage Method -- The Nature of the Four Stages -- The Lesson of the Failed Attempts -- Method and the Social Sciences -- Consistency and Beauty -- The Flexibility of Principles -- The Thing in the World Most Evenly Distributed -- CHAPTER XVI: Vanishing Perspectives -- The Theory of Knowledge -- Logos -- The Instauration -- Founding Science -- Glossary -- Name Index -- Subject Index
- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- PART ONE: THE LEGACY -- CHAPTER I: Classical Logic -- Pythagoras and the Pariah -- Plato and the Logos -- The Logic of Aristotle and of Chrysippus -- The Paradoxes -- Two Useful Notions -- The Universals -- CHAPTER II: Classical Physics -- Astronomy, from Hipparchus to Kepler -- The Dawn of Mechanics -- Newton's Dynamics -- Waves in the Ether -- The Beginning of Electromagnetism -- A Turning Point: Maxwell's Equations -- CHAPTER III: Classical Mathematics -- Classical Mathematics -- Rigor and Profusion in the Nineteenth Century -- Mathematics and Infinity -- CHAPTER IV: Classical Philosophy of Knowledge -- Francis Bacon and Experience -- Descartes and Reason -- Locke and Empiricism -- Digression: Cognition Sciences -- Hume's Pragmatism -- Kant -- PART TWO: THE FRACTURE -- CHAPTER V: Formal Mathematics -- The Age of Formalism -- Formal Logic -- Symbols and Sets -- Propositions -- Some Remarks Regarding Truth -- Taming Infinity -- Today's Mathematics -- The Crisis in the Foundations of Set Theory -- Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem -- A Tentative Conclusion -- CHAPTER VI: The Philosophy of Mathematics -- What Is Mathematics? -- Mathematical Realism -- Nominalism -- Mathematical Sociologism -- Mathematics and Physical Reality -- CHAPTER VII: Formal Physics -- The Century of Formal Physics -- Relativity -- The Relativistic Theory of Gravitation -- The Prehistory of the Atom -- Classical Physics in a Straitjacket -- The Assassination of Classical Physics -- The Harvest of Results -- CHAPTER VIII: The Epistemology of Physics -- Why Do We Need Interpretation? -- Uncertainties -- The Principle of Complementarity -- The Reduction of the Wave Function -- PART THREE: FROM FORMAL BACK TO VISUAL: THE QUANTUM CASE -- CHAPTER IX: Between Logic and Physics
- Subject Index
- PART TWO. THE FRACTURE
- Name Index
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- Prelude
- PART ONE. THE LEGACY
- PART THREE. FROM FORMAL BACK TO VISUAL: THE QUANTUM CASE
- PART FOUR. STATE OF THE QUESTION AND PERSPECTIVES
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Frontmatter --
- Preface